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Pfeiffer's classic activities for diversity trainiing [sic] / Jack Gordon, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Pfeiffer's classic activitiesPublication details: San Francisco, Calif. : Pfeiffer, c2005.Description: xvii, 397 p. : ill. ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 078797918X
  • 9780787979188
  • 099900736X (binder part)
  • 9780999007365 (binder part)
Other title:
  • Pfeiffer's classic activities for diversity training
  • Classic activities for diversity training
  • Diversity training
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.3008 22
LOC classification:
  • HF5549.M5 P45 2005
Contents:
Part 1: Presentation and discussion resources. Danger--diversity training ahead: addressing the myths of diversity training and offering alternatives / Paula Grace -- Diversity and organizational change / Ginger Lapid-Bogda -- Diversity display table : an activity and a bibliography / Julie O'Mara -- Managing diversity in the workplace / S. Kanu Kogod -- Diversity and team development / Claire B. Halverson and Guillermo Cuellar -- Leveraging difference and diversity in multicultural teams : virtually or face-to-face / Dianne Hofner Saphiere -- Preventing sexual harassment : stop shortchanging your organization with diversion programs / Harriet Cohen and Debbie Newman -- Consulting to generation X / H.B. Karp and Danilo Sirias.
Part 2: Experiential learning activities. Diversity--the broad view. Expanding the scope of diversity programs : a new model / Julie O'Mara -- Tortuga place and your place : understanding diversity / C. Louise Sellaro, Anne M. McMahon, and Betty Jo Licata -- Diversity quiz : viewing differences as resources / Linda Eschenburg -- Employment case : exploring organizational value conflicts / Joann Keyton -- What's legal? Investigating employment-interview questions / Robert J. (Jack) Cantwell. The usual suspects--race, gender, culture, and the rest. People with disabilities : understanding diversity in the workplace / Stephen P. Hanamura and Julie O'Mara -- Disability awareness : providing equal opportunities in the training environment / Robert William (Bob) Lucas -- Early memories: learning about stereotypes / Renee Yuengling -- Managerial characteristics : exploring stereotypes / Allen K. Gulezian -- What's your gen X IQ? Heightening intragroup awareness / H.B. Karp and Danilo Sirias -- Bargaining, United Nations style : exploring the impact of cultural values / Julia T. Oliver and John E. Oliver -- Merger mania : understanding intercultural negotiation / John Chesser. Perception, values, and work roles. What you see : examining different points of view / Anne M. McMahon and C. Louise Sellaro -- Cultural triangle : determining the effect of values on customer/client perceptions / Homer Warren, Anne M. McMahon, C. Louise Sellaro, and Carol Mikanowicz -- Value profile: legitimizing intergroup differences / Edward F. Pajak -- Intergroup clearing : a relationship-building intervention / Lawrence C. Porter -- Intergroup meeting: an image exchange / the Editors.
Part 3: Inventories, questionnaires, and surveys. Diversity awareness assessment / David P. Tulin -- Cross-cultural interactive preference profile / Morris Graham and Dwight Miller -- Cultural-context inventory : the effects of culture on behavior and work style / Claire B. Halverson -- Sexual harassment survey : exploring gender differences / John E. Oliver, Sarah Bartholomew Ellerbee, and S. Andrew Ostapski -- Attitudes toward women as managers (ATWAM) / Edward B.Yost and Theodore T. Herbert -- Why don't they do what I want? Understanding employee motivation / Janet Winchester-Silbaugh -- Behavior description / John E. Oliver -- Cognitive style inventory / Lorna P. Martin.
Summary: Provides a wide range of approaches--activities, exercises, and models--to help understand and leverage a diverse workforce. Emphasizes reframing diversity in the workplace as an opportunity to improve organizational performance. This mix of articles, activities, and instruments--including questionnaires and surveys--supports training on such topics as managing diversity, preventing sexual harassment, understanding generational differences, organizational value conflicts, disability awareness, intercultural negotiation, relationship building, the effects of culture on behavior and work style, understanding employee motivation, and more.
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"The most enduring, effective, and valuable training activities for diverse groups and teams"--Cover.

In loose-leaf binder.

Forms part of: Pfeiffer's classic activities set of seven (Jack Gordon, editor).

Includes bibliographical references.

Part 1: Presentation and discussion resources. Danger--diversity training ahead: addressing the myths of diversity training and offering alternatives / Paula Grace -- Diversity and organizational change / Ginger Lapid-Bogda -- Diversity display table : an activity and a bibliography / Julie O'Mara -- Managing diversity in the workplace / S. Kanu Kogod -- Diversity and team development / Claire B. Halverson and Guillermo Cuellar -- Leveraging difference and diversity in multicultural teams : virtually or face-to-face / Dianne Hofner Saphiere -- Preventing sexual harassment : stop shortchanging your organization with diversion programs / Harriet Cohen and Debbie Newman -- Consulting to generation X / H.B. Karp and Danilo Sirias.

Part 2: Experiential learning activities. Diversity--the broad view. Expanding the scope of diversity programs : a new model / Julie O'Mara -- Tortuga place and your place : understanding diversity / C. Louise Sellaro, Anne M. McMahon, and Betty Jo Licata -- Diversity quiz : viewing differences as resources / Linda Eschenburg -- Employment case : exploring organizational value conflicts / Joann Keyton -- What's legal? Investigating employment-interview questions / Robert J. (Jack) Cantwell. The usual suspects--race, gender, culture, and the rest. People with disabilities : understanding diversity in the workplace / Stephen P. Hanamura and Julie O'Mara -- Disability awareness : providing equal opportunities in the training environment / Robert William (Bob) Lucas -- Early memories: learning about stereotypes / Renee Yuengling -- Managerial characteristics : exploring stereotypes / Allen K. Gulezian -- What's your gen X IQ? Heightening intragroup awareness / H.B. Karp and Danilo Sirias -- Bargaining, United Nations style : exploring the impact of cultural values / Julia T. Oliver and John E. Oliver -- Merger mania : understanding intercultural negotiation / John Chesser. Perception, values, and work roles. What you see : examining different points of view / Anne M. McMahon and C. Louise Sellaro -- Cultural triangle : determining the effect of values on customer/client perceptions / Homer Warren, Anne M. McMahon, C. Louise Sellaro, and Carol Mikanowicz -- Value profile: legitimizing intergroup differences / Edward F. Pajak -- Intergroup clearing : a relationship-building intervention / Lawrence C. Porter -- Intergroup meeting: an image exchange / the Editors.

Part 3: Inventories, questionnaires, and surveys. Diversity awareness assessment / David P. Tulin -- Cross-cultural interactive preference profile / Morris Graham and Dwight Miller -- Cultural-context inventory : the effects of culture on behavior and work style / Claire B. Halverson -- Sexual harassment survey : exploring gender differences / John E. Oliver, Sarah Bartholomew Ellerbee, and S. Andrew Ostapski -- Attitudes toward women as managers (ATWAM) / Edward B.Yost and Theodore T. Herbert -- Why don't they do what I want? Understanding employee motivation / Janet Winchester-Silbaugh -- Behavior description / John E. Oliver -- Cognitive style inventory / Lorna P. Martin.

Provides a wide range of approaches--activities, exercises, and models--to help understand and leverage a diverse workforce. Emphasizes reframing diversity in the workplace as an opportunity to improve organizational performance. This mix of articles, activities, and instruments--including questionnaires and surveys--supports training on such topics as managing diversity, preventing sexual harassment, understanding generational differences, organizational value conflicts, disability awareness, intercultural negotiation, relationship building, the effects of culture on behavior and work style, understanding employee motivation, and more.

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